Curiosity rover detects bright object on surface of Mars...

In my opinion rocks can take very strange forms, especially with periodic dust storms. Though to me, it looks like a seahorse or a more amphibian
based life form that's closely related to the fish family. This is strictly keeping in mind that these are carbon based life forms. Silicon,
Hydrogen, etc. based life forms are not that farfetched.

However, this image is not enough to make any solid conclusions in my opinion. It could be a whole range of things. A lot of natural things are
reflective and shiny... and the object in this image is not defined well enough.

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I don't believe the image will EVER be defined enough for US to conclude what this "object" really is. Speculation will probably last as long as
Roswell speculation has.

The Curiosity Rover scooped the first soil sample from the surface Mars on the weekend. The rover tweeted the scoop, and included a video of
the scoop above. (Regolith is the loose layer of dust and rock covering solid bedrock.) It was the first of two planned sample scoops, meant to clear
the equipment before a third scoop which would then be analyzed. But there was a surprise in the Rover's first scoop; a mysterious bright object.

NASA has confirmed the rover team is holding off on using the robotic arm again until they determine what the object is, because it is possible it
is part of the rover itself.

NBC's Alan Boyle notes that rover debris is harmless, but the rover team will take precautions because "if even a bit of it happened to get into the
rover's sensitive chemistry labs, that could ruin the scientific readings."

I find NASA is nothing but a joke how they go about hiding this evidence.

My first though was that it was surface ice, scraped bare by the movement of the Rover.

But it looks like a pixel error, on the original pic it looks like a few pixels in a line. There is artifacting from the compression, smearing the
pixellation, but that would be my guess, though I can't be certain.

Originally posted by bottleslingguy
IF it is a plastic shaving or metal shard that big then nasa should be shut down. I mean we're talking about contaminating another planet
here

Don't you think that all the landers and rovers are enough contamination?

obviousness aside, I meant instead of pieces breaking off traveling around on the breeze as pollution if nasa was THAT delinquent in creating a
"sterile" nature, what else is on the rover- pubes? dna? virus?

what do you think about scooping it up and analyzing it? has anyone mentioned that?

"NBC's Alan Boyle notes that rover debris is harmless, but the rover team will take precautions because "if even a bit of it happened to get into
the rover's sensitive chemistry labs, that could ruin the scientific readings." "

I guess that's about it for the scoop then hunh? wtf is up with nasa? what a bunch of malarky. how can they sleep at night?

Originally posted by bottleslingguy
IF it is a plastic shaving or metal shard that big then nasa should be shut down. I mean we're talking about contaminating another planet
here

That big?????

What about the sky crane? the heat shield? other rovers that have crashed their?

A 1 inch piece of plastic is going to do nothing

And about this plastic shaving being anything significant:
Do you really think the first scoop from a 2 INCH SCOOP would yield anything to prove there is life their??
If so the Mars should be teeming with life.

C'mon its the first damn scoop, if this is evidence of life then this must be one of the luckiest projects in NASA's history.

Chance, coincidence....luck, happens to all of us at some point.
They landed the rover where it is for a reason, they didnt pick a random landing point. So you could say, they knew this was the best place to look,
and by chance, they found something

Mind you, I heard there's a saying among some European ufologists that goes something like: Between Man and the Alien stands the US government. You
know the sentiment: "I'll believe it when it lands on the White House lawn." That's what irritates some of the Europeans, or South Americans. Why
do we need Uncle Sam to explain reality?

We don't need "Uncle Sam to explain reality" but they sure feel they need to....and more.

I find NASA is nothing but a joke how they go about hiding this evidence.

I'd not conclude so easily that NASA is withholding any evidence.

Mind you, I heard there's a saying among some European ufologists that goes something like: Between Man and the Alien stands the US government. You
know the sentiment: "I'll believe it when it lands on the White House lawn." That irritates some of the Europeans, or South Americans. Why do we need
Uncle Sam to explain reality? Can't we make up our own minds? Well, it's tough without really solid evidence.

So the question from me to you is:
Does European ESA withhold evidence? www.esa.int...

I'm not saying they don't withhold evidence, because we don't know. We know the US government likes to keep information about the topic secret,
without doubt, but we don't really know if the various space agencies have evidence of E.T.s. Just saying..
Did NASA ever show up at UFO crashes? Perhaps. Were they extraterrestrial? Perhaps. Perhaps not, I don't know. It's very hard to find out. If there is
actual evidence, is NASA in the loop? Probably very senior staff, but who knows for sure?

Finally, isn't NASA up there looking for life now? Finally finally, if aliens want to investigate the extremes of human tech close up without danger
of being hit with buckshot, why aren't they zooming around the rover now?

Aren't we all curious if that'll ever happen: oops there goes the Rover, beamed up in some weird craft?! We'll see! Perhaps the NASA scientists are
thinking the same thing, I wouldn't be surprised if they are hoping for it, knowing geeks.

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